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Watters, Reginald Eyre, 1912-1979
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Born in Toronto in 1912, Reginald Eyre Watters earned his BA (1935) and MA (1937) from the University of Toronto and his PhD (1941) from the University of Wisconsin. He taught English at Washington and Indiana prior to joining the Department of English at the University of British Columbia in 1956. In 1961 he left UBC to take up a position at the Royal Military College, Kingston. Watters is best remembered for his Checklist of Canadian Literature and Background Materials, 1628-1960 (1959). He died in 1979.